TylerE

Ok, now I do whatever my art GF is. If you don’t have an art GF here… fix that.

I would have started with 1S. This is a telling hand not an asking hand.

On the given hand...partner made a single raise as a passed hand (Is Drury available, and if so, do you run good 9s through it?). SO I'm bidding 4♥. I'll take being usually right over being occasionally brilliant.

I'm going to start suggesting this to all my opponents.

Maybe, in theory. In practice it as my experience is that the very weak hidden hand often does quite a bit better than it really should, especially if the opponents aren't really alert to negative inferences. I'm probably in the minority here, but I *strongly* prefer 1N to 1D. If anyone has a major suit fit, it's odds are to be them, and I don't want to give them a chance to find it for free at the one level. 1D responses I prefer to be strongly polarized. Either Inv+ (and probably not balanced, unless my NT ladder is something weird) or very weak with looooong diamonds. This style makes competing much easier, for sure, since you're not trying to conduct invitational auctions really. If you bid 1 more it will be with expectations to have good odds at a make, or is virtually guaranteed to be a sane sac.

Ok, so, I open 1N, now what?

3 is a splinter because 2♦ is already a forcing reverse.

"at best partial" != "denies"

Not in my universe. If you can't trust that your forcing bids are actually forcing how can you function? I might also suggest that you have disclosure issues if "judgement" can turn "forcing" into "not forcing".

It ain't zero. I'm just not understanding what you think you're gaining by not checking.

I'm strongly in the camp of 1N on 5M hands regardless of range. Maybe not if playing 10-12. It frees up your rebid structure so much when you don't have to worry about that hand being in 1H. 1M essentially becomes unbalanced or strong.

Why jump over 7 entire levels of bidding to do that? Even if you want to completly caveman it, at least make a show of going through g----r.

Seems like an advert for confidently bidding a grand off an ace. 16+19 = 35

So would growing a pair and opening 1H on the N hand....I've opened a lot worse, playing a big club system.

That seems like more of an argument for finding a better use for 2NT to me, which I don't actually disagree with. Micheals tends to do a lot better since you can outbid them more cheaply.

Not possible in software. Just send a message in chat at the start of the 2nd hald... Team B up by 12 imps, something like that, and do a little arithmetic at the end.

I dislike 2NT intensely. I prefer my two Surtees to either be weak or game forcing. This is neither, and the suits aren’t really that good either, they aren’t going to play well opposite 2 or 3 small.

I see no such option. Did something change on the iOS app? All the spacing etc is suddenly weird

4- is GIBerish for 4 or more. It's a fit showing advance.

I would never open that 1D playing with GIB. It will never beleive you have a 5M if you don't open it.

XX is 100% NOT SOS on this auction. The S hand is well defined by the opening.

Only if you're ignoring the actual rules of bridge. Law 68.D: After any claim or concession, play is suspended.

X beyond clear. If I was going to overcall a suit, it would be ♠, not ♦. Why overcall a crappy suit that will get partner to botch the opening lead?

If you want to play bridge, don't partner GIB.

If you want to play bridge, don't partner GIB.